The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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Penfold101 said:
Musk’s worth is based on the (insanely overpriced) Tesla stock. He needed the deal to act as an excuse to liquidate some of that stock into actual cash without looking like he was just withdrawing from the company at its most valuable and thus tanking the share price (again).
He doesn’t give a **** about any of his companies, just his own appearance and how he can feed his own ego.
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You punted this theory a few pages back and it doesn't really seem to hold water.
Have you got any sources that suggests this is the case? Did he liquidate more Tesla stock that the amount he was putting up for the purchase (with banks funding the larger portion of the purchase)?

Roar87 said:
Because it doesn't matter, it isn't a criminal trial, it's lawyers who's salary he pays anyway. It seems like he's making a point about how bad the botting is on Twitter, and since it's Elon Musk he doesn't really give a **** if it puts him out of pocket by a few quid.
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So he's letting the public know something we already knew*, whilst putting himself on the hook for the very good possibility of either losing a billion dollars or being forced to purchase the business? :confused:
It doesn't make him look particularly good, in fact it makes him look rather inept.

* Has he even published any figures given Twitter handed over 53tb+ worth of data?
 
Roar87 said:
I can't help but reply and remind people of that fact
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However that's not the case.

You can't help but reply your latest coping mechanisms. You justify things you don't like, with speculative nonsense and then, waste the time sharing it with others, get laughed at by almost everyone in this thread for your coping mechanisms, and then try and pretend you do it for others.

You're literally coming into a thread, that at this point it pretty much full of people taking a small a pint of joy seeing someone rich do something stupid. For whatever 50 reasons the 50 people enjoy it, they do.

You then pretend you're posting some "reality check" in here. You're not.

The only one that needs a reality check is you as it seems that seeing everyone take joy, upsets you, and brings you to the point that you have to find a new excuse to cope.

While everyone is having fun here, you're the only one that isn't.
 
Higher Than Average said:
However that's not the case.

You can't help but reply your latest coping mechanisms. You justify things you don't like, with speculative nonsense and then, waste the time sharing it with others, get laughed at by almost everyone in this thread for your coping mechanisms, and then try and pretend you do it for others.

You're literally coming into a thread, that at this point it pretty much full of people taking a small a pint of joy seeing someone rich do something stupid. For whatever 50 reasons the 50 people enjoy it, they do.

You then pretend you're posting some "reality check" in here. You're not.

The only one that needs a reality check is you as it seems that seeing everyone take joy, upsets you, and brings you to the point that you have to find a new excuse to cope.

While everyone is having fun here, you're the only one that isn't.
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Ok sorry, carry on taking joy from Elon Musk, er, not buying Twitter
 
Roar87 said:
Because it doesn't matter, it isn't a criminal trial, it's lawyers who's salary he pays anyway. It seems like he's making a point about how bad the botting is on Twitter, and since it's Elon Musk he doesn't really give a **** if it puts him out of pocket by a few quid.



You've just typed some purely speculative nonsense coupled with amateur psychology. Here's my amateur psychology, you all seem incredibly insecure and threatened by successful men who aren't risk averse
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Elon doesn’t give a rats ass about bots or twitter - why on earth would he? Why would anyone actually want to buy the thing? If he wants a platform so much he could just make his own one for a few million, make one announcement and have millions of people on it worshipping his every word. The idea of him spending $44 billion is just ludicrous.
The bot thing is just a cover.

Oh, and calling me an amateur psychologist is a compliment - I’m nowhere near that good…
visibleman said:
You punted this theory a few pages back and it doesn't really seem to hold water.
Have you got any sources that suggests this is the case? Did he liquidate more Tesla stock that the amount he was putting up for the purchase (with banks funding the larger portion of the purchase)?
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Not me personally, as the only way anyone could know for sure what’s happening would be to get inside Elon’s mind, it’s just a theory I’ve seen floated round on various websites and news outlets which makes more sense in my mind.
I think he liquidated just under $10 billion - enough for a decent chunk of the price but not so much it completely eviscerated the share price and would’ve got the SEC involved. If he never planned to go through with it then the financing was just a formality that didn’t matter.
Just my personal opinion of course - I look forward to seeing how the courts look at it all with a very large box of popcorn…
 
Penfold101 said:
Elon doesn’t give a rats ass about bots or twitter - why on earth would he? Why would anyone actually want to buy the thing? If he wants a platform so much he could just make his own one for a few million, make one announcement and have millions of people on it worshipping his every word. The idea of him spending $44 billion is just ludicrous.
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$44billion is just ludicrous but stuff like Twitter has so called first mover advantage - it is notoriously difficult to shift the likes of Twitter, YouTube, etc. even if you come up with a better option and even go as far as paying people to use it :s generally when stuff like that gets replaced it is because they screwed up majorly in some way or a major shift in trends renders them obsolete. Which is why some of these kind of companies/services can command such huge prices - though they are rarely worth paying that as most often when someone does try to acquire them and put their stamp on it seems to be when they fall apart (see for example all MS's big dollar acquisition).
 
This is weird - I haven’t seen Elon’s name in the news for a few days now. His ego should’ve kicked in by now and announced something surely?

More kids? Colonies on the sun? Free sex robots for every Tesla owner?
 
Good news, body-shaming is back!

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Bezos seems to be winning here tho:

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Amusingly some "progressive" twitter accounts who'd ordinarily throw a fit over stuff like that were very happy to see the Elon pics.
 
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